THE CHILDREN Set Sail!

Disclaimer: This story is 45% One Piece, 45% Zettai Karen Children, and 10% mine at most. I own probably a little less, but definitely no more!

"Hey!" Nami lectured, "Did you guys forget what you went underwater for!?"

After booting Masira off into the distance, in other words ditching him, everyone finally settle down to see what the four divers had managed to salvage. Sadly, for Nami, they didn't exactly bring up any treasures. The four revealed that their knapsacks were filled with rusty relics, damage wreckages, or other miscellaneous items.

The majority were shells of various shape and sizes. There were kitchen utensils like plates, silver spoons and knives. There were armors, mostly rusty, with weapons ranging from swords to tridents. Strangely shape jars and an oddly shape remains of a small boat ended the list. Oh, and also an octopus.

"All you brought back was trash," Nami continued, "And nothing about how we can get to the sky!"

"Well," Kaoru frowned, "even if you say that Nami…"

"There was nothing else in there," Zoro concluded.

"Yeah, it's true Nami-san," Sanji nodded, "That ship obviously had been attacked. Either that or there was some sort of disagreement that caused them to turn on each other…"

"If that's so, then information is even more crucial!" Nami argued, "Don't you get it!? If we went into the sky right now, whatever happened on that sunken ship could happen to us too! The information we have can mean life or death! Look at this stuff: rusted swords, food-ware, OCTOPUS! What I NEED are things like a Diary or Sea Charters, not this junk!"

"O-Oi!" Zoro, Sanji and Kaoru exclaimed as Nami stamped on the salvage items they collected.

"…And what's that, Luffy?" Nami inquired Luffy, who was walking around in one of the set of rusty armor.

"Armor!" Luffy answered proudly, "To protect me from harm!"

"Oh~! I see~! Let's test it~!"

"Oh, okay! How?"

"Simple~! Like THIS!" BAM!

"Ah~!" Kaoru exclaimed in horror and shock as she stood over Luffy's unconscious body, the armor in pieces, "The armor is smashed to bits~!"

"Nami-swan~!" Sanji swooned, "I brought back a beautiful shell for you~!"

"I DON'T WANT IT, YOU IDIOT!" Nami sharply rejected the offer.

"…I think she likes me more now~!"

"No" Usopp waved his hand in denial, "Not likely…"

"Stop with your wild delusion," Aoi followed suite.

"Seems there's trouble," Robin noted to the dishearten Nami.

"The worst has yet to come," Nami sighed, "Bunch of idiots! Now I really don't know where to go next!"

"We'll figure out something," Shiho shrugged, "It's not a complete lost…"

"How!? Even you said that you didn't get much from those junks!"

"One person's junk is another's treasure. Back in my world, there are people who would pay high price for those 'junks'…"

"Eh!? Really!?"

"Yeah, including the ones that was recently smashed up…"

"Oi, you all!" Nami suddenly called to the Monster Four, "Who smashed those up!?"

"EH~!?" Kaoru, Zoro and Luffy exclaimed in shock, "You did!"

"… … … …SHUT UP!" BONK! BONK! BONK! BONK!

"That was unreasonable," Aoi managed as she stood over the unconscious bodies of the four; Sanji was also hit in the confusion.

"Well that certainly dampers my mood," Nami sighed before noticing Robin offering her something, "…? What's this?"

"It's an 'Eternal Pose'," Shiho informed, "Apparently Robin stole it form the Monkey's ship during the confusion…"

"I did indeed," Robin shrugged, "I thought it might come in handy…"

"… …You two," Nami suddenly cried in joy, earning a sweat drop from Robin and Shiho, "You two are the only one who understand me~~!"

"…Seems like she's been putting in a lot of effort," Robin managed.

"Being one of the only sane members on this ship?" Shiho replied, "Of course she would…"

"…Jaya," Nami read the inscription on the Eternal Pose, "Must be their Headquarters…"

"Jaya?" Luffy pondered as he ate some takoyaki, supposedly from the octopus mention before, "Are we going to there?"

"Shouldn't that be yours to decide!?"

"Yeah~," Aoi gave a deadpan expression, "Did you forget that you're the Captain?"

"Okay~~~!" Luffy shouted at the top of his voice suddenly, "Turn to Jaya full speed~~~!"

"… …Which way?" Kaoru noted after a pause.

"To the left," Nami instructed.

"Hard to port then, got it!"

"To Jaya~~!" Luffy cheered, "Full speed ahead~~~!"

"…Ah-! Hey, wait a second!" Usopp suddenly noted as he was eating takoyaki, "If we just go directly to Jaya, won't the 'record' be overwritten when we're there?"

"…Huh?" Aoi blinked in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"Like I explained before," Shiho began, "The Log Pose locks onto the unique magnetic signature given off each islands. Those are called the 'records'. Right now, our Log Pose is locked on or recording the path to Sky Island. But Usopp is saying that once we get close to Jaya, the island's magnetic pull will overwrite our previous recording…"

"… …! In other words, it won't point to Sky Island anymore!?"

"Yeah, basically, Usopp is saying we won't be able to get up to Sky Island…"

"WHAT!?" Kaoru and Chopper exclaimed in realization.

"Stop moving to Jaya~~~!" Luffy comically ordered in panic before turning to Nami, "Hey Nami! What's going on here!?"

"Going to Jaya was your decision, right?" Nami reasoned.

"Ugh-! Yeah, that's right, but I didn't think that the situation would turn out like this!"

"If you didn't think, it's your fault then, Luffy," Shiho shrugged.

"Ugh-! Yeah, you're right. Alright! Listen, I'm the Captain, so I decide where to go. I want to go to Sky Island!"

"Sure~," Nami shrugged, "How will you get there?"

Aoi hummed in thought. "The fastest way is to ask around for info, I guess…"

"Right, we can ask around in Jaya for that, right?"

"Oh yeah," Kaoru thumped her palm.

"Alright~~~!" Luffy cheered, "To Jaya, full speed-!"

"Oi," Usopp and Aoi comically dope slap Luffy, "We just went back to where we were!"

"The Log Pose won't reset that quickly," Robin suddenly informed, "If we leave before the record is reset, we should be fine…"

"Oh~!" Kaoru, Chopper, Usopp and Luffy sighed in relief, "That's a relief…"

"Then it's settle," Aoi nodded, "It all depends on luck then…"

"Pretty much," Nami shrugged.

"Alright, Ye Mateys! Let's go~~~!" Luffy cheered again, "To the Kingdom of Meat~~~!"

"Where the hell did 'Kingdom of Meat' came from!?" Kaoru comically exclaimed.

"He's just daydreaming," Shiho sighed.

"Girls~~!" Sanji suddenly called, "the 'Exclusive Ladies Only Takoyaki' are done~!"

"Oh~! Takoyaki~~~!" the Children cheered as they rush to collect their food. Nami and Robin followed in suite with a chuckle.

Thus, for now, the Merry Go will be sailing towards the mysterious location of Jaya.

"…Still can't see it, Usopp?" Shiho called up to the crow's nest, where Usopp kept a vigilant eye out for land.

It has been roughly an hour since they had decided to head for Jaya. Aoi had spent that time training under Zoro. Kaoru played with Chopper and Luffy in a game of tag, dragging Zoro into it as they did. Shiho had been listening in on Nami's lecture about the weather. Though she is still far from declaring she can now predict the weather; she has enough confidence to say she can mildly guess several atmospheric patterns.

"…I haven't seen it yet!" Usopp finally announced after several more attempts to see farther.

"It shouldn't be so far away, right?" Zoro noted, having decided to end his and Aoi's sparring session for now, "That monkey-man said that area back there was his territory after all…"

"…Shiho, what do you think about the weather?" Nami suddenly called.

"Eh!? Um," Shiho closed her eyes and extended her Psychometry Powers over her expose body parts. That's how she determines the best way to use her power for weather predicting. "Hmm~! Pretty stable…for a while actually…"

"Exactly," Nami chuckled, "We're probably in Jaya's weather area now…"

"Jaya must be a 'Spring Island'," Luffy noted, having stop playing tag.

"Spring Island?" Kaoru noted in confusion.

"Each island in the Grand Line can be categorized in four seasons," Nami informed, "For example, Arabasta is consider a 'Summer Island', hot year around…"

"Oh~!"

"So warm, feels good," Chopper sighed as he bathe in the warm of the climate, staring up to gaze at the seagulls that flew above, "Spring is such a good season. Those seagulls seem to be feeling well, too-…"

But before he could finish, three of the seagulls suddenly drop from the sky and fell dead on the ship's deck.

"… …KYAH~~~!" Aoi exclaimed, having been in the midst of the seagulls' landing area, and teleported behind the ship's mast, "They're dead~~~!"

"Ah~!" Chopper exclaimed, rushing over to inspect the birds, "They were shot!"

"Oh~! BBQ material~!" Luffy drooled at the thought.

"HOW CAN YOU BE THINKING ABOUT FOOD!?" Shiho comically exclaimed

"They were shot!?" Kaoru cupped her ears, trying to listen, "I didn't hear any gunshots!"

"I didn't either!" Usopp informed.

"…Look, bullet!" Chopper exclaimed as prying the said ammunition from one of the birds, "Judging from the angle of descent, it was fired from the direction in front of the ship!"

"Shooting from an Island that we can't even see yet?" Nami chuckled, "Chopper, that's impossible~!"

"But I was watching them!"

"And I don't want to hear that coming from someone who can predict weather so accurately!" Aoi added.

Usopp laughed from up in the crow's nest. "If that's true, with what kind of eye sight, using what kind of gun, and what kind of technique does that shooter have?"

"Excited?" Shiho grinned up to the crow's nest as she begins scanning the birds.

"Well, as a fellow marksman, of course I'll be interested. Well, there's still the possibility that they probably got hit before and just happened to fall down right now…"

"…I'm not so sure," Shiho frowned, using her Psychometry power on the birds' corpse, "The bullet lodge through their hearts…and they were done only a few seconds ago…"

"Eh-! Really!?"

Shiho nodded. "The bullet is round so in our standards it's probably an old sniper rifle. To be able to shoot this far, means there's a rather impressive sniper out there…"

"Seriously?" Kaoru awed, "Even Black Phantom's Bullet couldn't be that good, and he had clairvoyance…"

"Yeah-! Huh!?" Shiho blinked when she notice the birds she was scanning were gone, "Where they go!?"

"Sanji~!" Luffy glee, presenting Sanji with the seagulls, "Seagulls~~!"

"Jeez, Luffy! I'm not done with them yet!"

"Hey don't hog them! Share!"

"I wasn't going to EAT them, you idiot; they're not even cooked yet! And I don't want you lecturing me about 'sharing'!"

"It's okay, Shiho," Sanji took the birds, "You don't have to deal them this time; it must be hard on your stomach since they were technically alive not so long ago…"

"Oh, thanks for being consider-WAIT A MINUTE! That's not it! I can cook them just fine-NO! That's not it either~~~!"

Kaoru and Aoi laughed as Shiho stumble over her thought-process. The incident was soon quickly forgotten afterwards.

It was an hour later when the island of Jaya finally came into sight. Soon they were able to see the port town where they could dock.

"Wow~~!" Kaoru awed as she gaze at the port which was closing in, "Not bad at all~! A pleasant looking city is in sight!"

"Hey, hey!" Usopp smiled, "It looks like a vacation resort!"

"A resort!?" Aoi and Chopper exclaimed in excitement.

"Yup!" Nami sighed, "I feel like staying around for a few days there…"

"Only we can't," Shiho noted.

"Speed up, Merry!" Luffy cheered, patting the Merry Go's head where he sat.

"Speeding her up~!" Kaoru used her psychic powers to speed up the ship.

As they got in closer, Usopp notice some rather distinctive ships docked in the port.

"…Umm," Usopp managed uneasily, "Those ships at the dock look like pirate ships…Am I just worrying too much?"

"Usopp, think~!" Nami laughed at his "funny joke", "How can Pirate Ship openly dock in public?"

Usopp thought about before laughing. "Yeah, you're right…"

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… …

… … …

"MURDERER~~~!" Chopper, Nami and Usopp cried out in despair, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS CITY~~~!?"

The Children's face could only twitch in agreement. No sooner did they dock in port did reality slap them hard in the face. The city, which had looked so splendid from afar, was anything but glamorous. The buildings were old; some look as if they could barely support housing for another day or so. But more importantly, it was easy to tell where the pirates are: they're everywhere! There were pirates drinking bottles of wine right on the port; there were pirates gambling in the streets; there were pirates picking fights with each other; there were even pirates walking around with a woman or two in their arms.

"…This," Kaoru managed, obviously disturb, "seriously looks like a red-light district Minamoto always warn us about…"

"…I-I suddenly fear for my life and purity," Aoi cried, "I-I don't want to go in…"

"Me neither…"

"I'm not crazy about exploring this place myself," Shiho sweat dropped, only to see that the first people to get off the boat were… "Eh!? Luffy!? Zoro!?"

"Seems like there is all kinds of people here!" Luffy smiled.

"Looks to me like a fun city," Zoro smirked.

"… …EH~~~!?" The Children exclaimed.

Kaoru (Angry): "Heeey~! This Chapter is so shooort~!"

Shiho (pointing a gun at Normama): "Did you get lazy~?"

Normama (sweating nervously): "NO~! I didn't~! I'm posting another chapter in response~!"

Aoi (nodding): "Good cover~!"

Minamoto: "Normama, what is the meaning of this!? Why are they docking at this very dangerous place!?"

Normama: "It just happen, okay-?"

Chief Kiritsubo: "NORMAMA~~~~! How dare you bring the Children to such a horrendous place~~! I'll KILL you~!"

Normama (being strangled): "Gah-! Calm down-! Uh…pleasetuneinnexttimetoseeifthey'llfindouthowtogettoSkyIslandornot… … …I'm…choking~~~!"

Minamoto and the Children (trying to pull Chief Kiritsubo off of Normama): "STOOOOOP~~~!"